Rainer Gruessner: Strong and Effective Patient Advocate

Rainer Gruessner: Strong and Effective Patient Advocate In 2010 and 2011 Arizona’s Medicaid program (AHCCCS) stopped paying for certain liver, pancreas, heart, lung and bone marrow transplants for financial reasons. This became nationally known as “Death by Budget Cuts”. Dr Rainer Gruessner vehemently fought this decision and got the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) and other national transplant organizations involved as well as the media and politicians. Due to the public pressure these budget cuts were eventually revoked and patients were relisted for life-saving transplants.

Rainer Gruessner: Top of the Arizona Medical Community Dr Rainer Gruessner has enjoyed a career of firsts, also as a member of the Arizona medical community. A long-time medical professional in the state of Arizona, Gruessner became the first surgeon in the nation’s Southwest to perform living and deceased intestinal transplants, as well as the first to perform a multi-visceral transplant and a pediatric living donor liver transplant. Gruessner has directed many innovative surgical procedures.

Rainer Gruessner: Fighting AHCCCS denial of Life-Saving Transplants In 2010 and 2011 Arizona’s Medicaid program (AHCCCS) stopped paying for certain liver, pancreas, heart, lung and bone marrow transplants for financial reasons. This became nationally known as “Death by Budget Cuts”. Dr Rainer Gruessner vehemently fought this decision and got the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) and other national transplant organizations involved as well as the media and politicians. Due to the public pressure these budget cuts were eventually revoked and patients were relisted for life-saving transplants.

Rainer Gruessner: Fighting Arizona’s Budget Cuts of Transplant Coverage

In 2010 and 2011 Arizona’s Medicaid program (AHCCCS) stopped paying for certain liver, pancreas, heart, lung and bone marrow transplants for financial reasons. This became nationally known as “Death by Budget Cuts”. Dr Rainer Gruessner vehemently fought this decision and got the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) and other national transplant organizations involved as well as the media and politicians. Due to the public pressure these budget cuts were eventually revoked and patients were relisted for life-saving transplants.

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